Reply #144: That is true.

[tjdee]

And you know, how dumb, when I read that I went "oh yeah, that was a pain when my mom did it"--and duh everyone, my mom got remarried and her last name is different than mine now! Didn't think of it till just now.

And while the idea of it causes mild irritation, the actual "it" of it doesn't even make enough of a dent for me to remember it when we're discussing that very thing, LOL. And name changes happen all the time, my sister will be a different last name than me when she gets married, etc.

My thing is, as I was saying below, the sameness of a last name reinforcing the "we're all in this together" feeling of a family.A name doesn't make that happen, of course, but eh, that's my thing. To plan different last names...hmm.